This is the first of four interfaith dialogues on reconciliation planned with the following four principals:

In the absence of Ayatollah Dr. S. Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad, we
welcome Ayatollah Dr. Ahmad Iravani, president of the Center for the Study
of Islam & the Middle East and research scholar at the Columbus School
of Law in Washington, D.C.; representing the Shi’a Muslim tradition